Selling on the street, going from door to door, is one of the most common trades in the African world, in both the rural areas and the slums of the big cities. The seller who goes around with the goods on his back is, in that situation, characteristic of those who are accustomed to fending for themselves and coming up with their own job.
It is the crude spin-off of a changing, evolving economic process. The slums are not only places of extreme survival: a more careful look at them...
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